Outreach
Materials for outreach events
- Table
- Banner for table
- Chairs
- Protect the New Mexico Night Sky brochures
- Fact sheets for taping to table
- Sheet for DarkSky approved fixtures and link
- Sheet showing good and bad fixtures
- Easel and poster for NM
- Large images (e.g., Milky Way, dark and light views of sky)
- Shade structure (as needed)
- Banner for shade structure
- sign up sheet for email addresses (and make sure to communicate these after the event!)
Standard pitch / talking points
- get their concerns
- get them to sign signup sheet with email address (make sure to communicate this sheet after the event!)
- get them to join DarkSky International
- critical importance of talking to others about the issue, even if just to say it’s important to you
- friends and neighbors
- retailers
- local and state politicians
- key points
- don’t need to turn out lihgts, just need to put light where and when it is needed
- five principles
- useful terminology for talking with people
- glare
- light trespass
Frequently asked questions and appropriate responses
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My neighbor has bright lights that bug me:
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There are city lights near my home that bug me: